Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition has been as sterile as the Sahara desert. Devoting all their attention to discrediting Rooseveltian ideas, they have given the public no intimation of the program they would follow if elected to office. As in 1932, so in 1936, recovery will be the fundamental issue. The Republicans must offer a platform which, while conservative, yet offers to the common people a tangible hope for better times. They must fight the vast grants of federal funds with some program which will appeal to the hearts and purses of that vast populace who listen to the gospels of such demagogues...
...should deal with the value of reproductions and prints of all sorts. At present the one move in acquainting undergraduates with art for collecting, of for the home, is the loan of etchings by the Fogg Art Museum for students rooms. The number of men who responded to the offer should convince the department that interest in objects d'art really exists, and is worth cultivating...
...this seemingly generous offer, the opposition pastors returned a flat and unanimous "No." Behind the appearance of the State's abject surrender, they spotted the finesse that Minister Kerrl, although promising to appoint opposition clerics, reserved the right to dismiss them as soon as opposition congregations had drained off into his German Christian Church...
...park superintendent was abolished in 1925, the man took stale meat to the eagle twice every day. Kenerson could put his arm around the bird but whenever anyone else approached, Uncle Sam grew truculent, refused to eat, hopped to a higher limb. Once Kenerson turned down two strangers' offer of $200 for the bird. Next day he found the cage spattered with blood and fragments of men's clothing. He said the thieves were lucky to have escaped alive. Last fortnight a New London councilwoman proposed that the eagle be presented to Manhattan's Central Park...
...soon taken into his firm. With his tastes inclining him toward an academic career and a quiet family life, he had little interest in establishing a great fortune, underwent an extraordinary period of doubt, hesitancy, soul-searching, before accepting the offer of a Morgan partnership. The House of Morgan wanted him, his old friend Calvin Coolidge wrote, "not merely because of his talent, for talent was plentiful and easy to buy, but . . . for his character, which was priceless...